(06-10-2012 02:48 PM)DLJ Wrote: Well, if you guys keep electing these idiots, it won't be too long before the US implodes and the Chinese superpower can restore discipline and order and atheism.

I'm looking forward to it.

Of course, that will be the death-knell of the rhinoceros and any other species that the woo-loving Chinese believe has medicinal powers. Fucking woo.

Hey Chas... thought experiment... if you had a magic wand:
Given that, over the millions of years that life has existed 98.xx % of the planet's species have already become extinct...
How many more species would you be prepared to lose in exchange for the disappearance of religion?

(06-10-2012 03:01 PM)Chas Wrote: Of course, that will be the death-knell of the rhinoceros and any other species that the woo-loving Chinese believe has medicinal powers. Fucking woo.

Hey Chas... thought experiment... if you had a magic wand:
Given that, over the millions of years that life has existed 98.xx % of the planet's species have already become extinct...
How many more species would you be prepared to lose in exchange for the disappearance of religion?

I don't think I'd be able to answer that except to say that homo sapiens will go extinct if religion doesn't.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.

(06-10-2012 01:59 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: So if you look him up, in his work history, he apparently took no training, after his MD degree, (or couldn't get into a residency program), as no one would have hired him. He practiced ONLY as a "house call" concierge-type physician, (for rich people), as no credentialing body would credential him, or staff would have him, without training. I can't tell, if or where he did his one year post MD training to get his licenseure, but if he had completed any board training, he would state it, and he doesn't.
So he's a quack doctor.

So, to him I say : "Before we start, I think it's useful, to put all this in context. Dr. Broun. In the 21st Century, in 2012, you actually intellectually consent to, and affirm, that there are real actual devils and angels in THIS room, and they can actually and really possess you and I, and that they are sent from hell to get me, just such as was seen in the movie, "The Exorcist", and just as "exorcism" is taught and practiced by your church. OK. Now that the context of the level of this discussion is established, and we all understand what we're dealing with here, and what playing field we're actually playing on, we will continue."

OMf'nG. And this man actually is in Congress.
Run while you can.

Not sure if I follow you. His wiki page lists a residency program at a hospital in Alabama. I am no expert in doctors' credentialing so maybe I am missing the boat entirely. Wiki page